fe-safe User Group Meeting

This event will bring together leading fatigue experts, fe-safe users and specialist fatigue engineers and analysts to share knowledge, expertise and methodology.

We offer a day for presentations on fatigue and durability as well as how fe-safe is applied in industry to achieve business advantage across a broad range of sectors and for a variety of materials and components.

The main User Group Meeting on Tuesday 24th will be followed by a day of Workshops on Wednesday 25th where we will take a closer look at particular areas of fatigue technology and encourage interaction and discussion in specialist areas of interest.

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Keynote Presentation: We are delighted to announce as technical keynote Speaker, Professor Ralph Stephens, from the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at The University of Iowa. Professor Stephens will present a historical overview in his talk: "A half Century History of Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics".

Following the Workshops on Wednesday 25th June we have a new addition to our agenda:

Between 3.30pm and 5pm, we are giving you an opportunity to meet with members of our technical team for a 1-2-1 session to discuss any topic you wish. 20 mins slots (or more on request) will be given on a first-come-first serve basis, and we kindly ask that you give us a brief description of the topic you want to discuss ahead of time so that we can prepare accordingly and perhaps recommend others to also join the conversation.

You might want to talk through a current support issue, an area of fe-safe or fatigue that you want to know more about, you might want to bounce ideas off someone or just generally pick their brains…the choice is yours!The people at your disposal and their areas of expertise are listed below. Please let us know who you would like to meet and we will send you back a meeting time. The venue has WIFI available if you find yourself with time to spare before your meeting. Contact stephanie.wood(at)3ds.com

John Draper

CEO of Safe Technology for 15 years

Author of ‘Modern Metal Fatigue’ book

Fatigue design, fatigue testing and fatigue R&D

Application of fatigue analysis software to engineering problems

Developed the fe-safe prototype software

Acted as fatigue consultant in the ground vehicle applications

Pawel Sobczak

Manager, fe-safe Technical Support for 7 years

Theory & application of fe-safe and add-on modules

Sandy Eyl

fe-safe Technical Support for 5 years

Pre-processing for Verity

FEA model review for fe-safe (and the modules) such as Nastran, Ansys, or Abaqus